Actually, having just Cha Yu-Jin as an addition wouldn't destroy the mood of TV watching.

However, if Cha Yu-Jin's team atmosphere falling into hell is shown in episode 9, it's going to be very gloomy.

Is there any reason to be uncomfortable?

I picked up my smartphone and thought for a while. It was to choose an appropriate way to reject. That was when the Big Se-Jin intervened.

"What's going on?"

"Oh, Rae-Bin asked if it was okay for Cha Yu-Jin to join."

"Hmm... I think it'll be okay."

Big Se-Jin laughed.

"Would the production team broadcast that team in episode 9? It'll probably come out in the preview for episode 10, right?"

Wow, I didn't even think that far.

Besides, I didn't expect him to say it so openly. Since the controversy over school violence, it seems that there have been more cases of openly speaking about whether there has been any strange credibility. //TN: I have no idea what this means so I just used a translator app.

"It's better to build our friendship with this opportunity~ Oh right, the landlord's opinion is important! What do you think, A-Hyun?

"I, I'm fine with it!"

"You heard him!"

Seon AHyun agreed loudly and focused on reading the board game rules.

This guy's personality seems to have changed a little.

I didn't expect him to invite an uninformed participant to his house.

"Well...then."

I'll just tell them to come.

I sulkily wrote a reply to Kim Rae-Bin.

* * *

It was after lunch that Kim Rae-bin and Cha Yu-jin arrived.

"Welcome!"

Big Se-jin greeted them cheerfully.

For your information, Gold 1 had hurriedly joined us and was also sitting in the living room after Big Se-jin's remarks, 'Now that it has come to this, I should also invite hyung'.

It is true that the picture becomes weird if only Gold 1 is not invited among the team members, but Cha Yu-Jin's presence here was also strange.

"Hello. Nice to meet you."

Cha Yu-Jin unexpectedly bowed his head to greet us and held out a full plastic bag. Everything in the bag were snacks.

"I ordered chicken for now, but if there's anything else you want to eat, let's order it again."

"Yes."

Kim Rae-bin nodded and sat quietly in the corner meaning he doesn't need it.

But then Cha Yu-Jin asked with twinkling eyes.

"Can you order pizza?"

"Sure!"

"Wow!"

Cha Yu-Jin turned on the delivery app, leaving only exclamations. I thought he was still feeling discouraged, but he looked bright by himself.

Kim Rae-bin calmly exchanged greetings.

"Did hyungs join in the morning?"

"Ah, I did~ but Moon-Dae came even earlier."

"What?"

There's nothing to hide, but it was a bit annoying to explain.

In any case, I couldn't ignore it, so I explained the big incident that occurred in the studio apartment.

Seon A-Hyun also stepped in and supplemented the story.

It was like this.

"...So when I went inside the front door, there were other people."

"Gasp!"

"N-not one, but there were three more people!"

"...Well, yes. So it took some time for the police to get them."

"The- the police were so absent-minded, as if nothing happened... Th-they're too much."

"Too...much. Yeah."

As this conversation process repeated, the incident became more and more exaggerated and turned into a rumor about the Internet.

Thanks to this, the participants who heard the explanation were surprised.

"Woah, I'm glad you came to A-hyun's place. That's scary."

"I know. Hey... someone also came to my house, and it worries me. I have a younger brother at home..."

"Oh my god, someone was there?"

"Yeah. I heard later that they rang the doorbell and kept sitting in front of it, so he couldn't go out."

"Oh gosh..."

Similar experiences have been reported by people who live on their own or in the dormitory of their agency.

It was an eerie and suitable topic for before watching show.

By the time we were eating chicken, a story of an idol friend of an acquaintance was mentioned.

"......so when he went in the shower, the sensors went 'beep-beep'..."

"That's crazy."

As I was chewing the pizza that had arrived, the TV started to show the rebroadcast of episode 8 before the 9th episode of .

We watched episode 8 while commenting accordingly. By the time it was over, even Cha Yu-Jin was caught in the atmosphere.

"You really didn't feel disappointed for being in the 3rd place?"

"It was unfortunate, but I was fine."

"Woah, you're so cool."

"Hehe."

Cha Yu-Jin grinned at Gold 1's admiration. It was amazing how the team was able to make such a guy like Cha Yu-Jin have a hard time.

It was not until the pizza box was emptied that episode 9 began.

[Re-listing! Idol Inc., Ltd!]

The logo that I was about to get tired of appeared, and the first cut that came out was the talent show.

Here, the participants managed to get their screentimes split evenly.

I don't know if it's because they promoted the content with the theme of healing, or if it's an attempt to cover up the show's hasty and poor progress with warmth.

In any case, most of them got humorous scenes that moderately improved their character images. Big Se-Jin was a prime example of this.

The problem is my part... I appeared as a joke and ended as a joke.

[In this moment... Dominating the stage!]

[Park Moon-Dae, is he serious about singing trot?]

There was captions put on as I was singing.

They made it blatantly cringe-worthy because it was meant for laughs.

And everyone laughed so well.

"Ahahaha!"

"Pfft"

"You got a good-looking amount of footage. Congratulations, Moon-Dae!"

That last one was said by Big Se-Jin. I silently smacked Big Se-Jin's back without saying anything while he was drinking soda.

"Cough, cough"

Why don't just laugh.

Park Moon-Dae's part did not end there.

After the scene where I received the kimchi refrigator and the participants running up excitedly, they even inserted an interview as a stamping on a seal.

[Q: Do you like trot songs?]

[Park Moon-Dae: Yes.]

After my immediate answer, a cut of me raising my thumb was inserted.

'That's from the interview where they asked if I liked my team.'

What kind of fabrications are these crazy people making every single episode?

A caption was put there.

[Trot lover Park Moon-Dae is very happy with the kimchi refrigerator!]

I haven't even received the kimchi refrigerator yet, you bastards.

What makes me more upset is that, that was the end of my part in episode 9.

'They only give out useless things.'

If this was in the beginning of the show, I would have appreciated the positive amount of screentime, but not right now.

It's because this wasn't a very beneficial edit at a time when the last team match is approaching.

Comments like 'he doesn't look desperate' would be fatal for me in the final votes.

And so far, the Park Moon-Dae appearing on the broadcast... honestly, didn't seem very desperate.

I think it's understandable when there are more funny scenes than desperate ones.

So, in this team fight I was working harder, but if this trend continues, it is unlikely that my 'desperateness' will be highlighted.

'It can't be helped.'

I didn't aim to make my final debut here in the first place. I've never shown enough to aim for such a cut, and the timing to show that has passed quite a bit.

It wasn't like I had a backstory that the fans could create and share the desperation.

'It's kind of funny.'

In fact, I'm the most desperate of all the people here. I'm probably the only one who dies if I don't make a debut.

'I need to mentally prepare my heart a little.'

Let's do this even if my ranking suddenly plummets in the last episode.

Whoever gets picked instead of me will be able to debut quickly.

I lost my appetite. Somehow... it was a little sad.

'If you're going to promote, you would rather do it with the people you're comfortable with.'

A majority here will probably debut. I felt a strange sense of defeat when I thought I might not be able to join them.

Compared to when the filming first started, I seem to have changed quite a bit, too.

But there was no room for such sentiment.

Surprisingly, the production team put the whole collapse of team at the end of episode 9.

[Choi Won-Gil: So, hyung can do this much, too.]

[Lee Se-Jin: What you can do and what you want to do have completely different meanings, don't you think?]

[Choi Won-gil: Hyung, this is the moment to prove our skills. If you think about it...]

[Ki Jung-kyun: Don't you think talking like that seems like you're challenging us? Don't regret this later.]

[Lee Sejin: ...Stop it.]

After this conversation, the broadcast aired a scene of Lee Se-Jin's face souring for several seconds.

And then, they showed them again in a completely emotional state while clenching their fists, giving short answers and questions.

It was obvious they were conscious of the camera and held it in.

There was no one to mediate the disaster that occurred after Ryu Chung-woo went to submit a song to the production team.

[Cha Yujin: ...]

For your information, Cha Yu-Jin intervened once and was ignored as if he had never said anything.

I thought maybe what he said didn't fit the current atmosphere.

Cha Yu-Jin looked at the screen with a depressed face, then immediately put his face in the cup and started drinking soda.

It seems to me that thankfully he passed without receiving criticism, but his point of view must be different.

[Ryu Chung-Woo: ...What's going on?]

Episode 9 ended with Ryu Chung-woo, who returned, bewildered by the completely destroyed team atmosphere.

[This despairing atmosphere, will they be able to finish the performance safely?]

"Oh, it's done, right?"

"Yes, it was good."

Big Se-Jin properly spoke up and warmed up the atmosphere. I don't know why he induced me to respond, but I responded appropriately.

Cha Yu-jin barely took his face off the soda and smiled.

I think he is addicted to Suga High.

'...Is it maybe my fault?'

I quickly erased the ominous thoughts.

On the screen, the end advertisement disguised as an intermediate advertisement was now appearing.

Looking at the time, the broadcast will probably end right after the commercial with a short trailer or behind-the-scenes cuts.

"Today, they only showed the preparation process."

"Right. We didn't come out much."

The team had little screentime after showing up briefly only at the beginning of the initial formation.

Although the production team can adjust the order arbitrarily, I was expecting a little bit that we would take place at the end of episode 9 as we were the first stage, but I didn't think that there wouldn't be any performances at all.

'Wouldn't this lower the ratings?'

As I was wondering for a moment, began to appear on the screen again after the mid-term advertisement.

The MC appeared on the screen.

"...I don't have a good feeling."

"You too? Hey, me too."

It was never a good thing for the MC to appear alone on the show, so the participants reflexively tensed up and swallowed their saliva.

[ Did you enjoy watching the show today?]

"Nope."

"No."

There were weak denials here and there.

This was something small that you couldn't do while filming.

[What I'm going to present now is... the stock status so far!]

"What?"

"Well, I don't think they would let us know this easily. Maybe just a few people in a certain rank, but not fully disclosed......"

[However, only 'reduced stocks' are announced! Which stocks did sell the most?]

"Oh, my God."

Kim Rae-bin sighed which was understandable.

"What kind of crazy person came up with the idea of ​​disclosing only negative voting figures?"'

I thought most things wouldn't be surprising to me because I already knew about the show's strategies to pull in attention.

//TN: They used the word 'aggro' again but I changed it for it to make more sense

"But I didn't know there would be a surprise like this."

It was clear that the idea of not putting the performances in this episode came from this.

[Now, let's reveal the sales ranking!]

Along with the MC's words, the rankings with negative marks on the screen were lined up.

And the living room was engulfed in silence.